Why work?

Colleagues,
 
MVP: What you do is aligned with some purpose, but that purpose is not always clear and it may not be the official stated purpose of the organization.
 
Why do you do the work you do? 
 
What are you trying to achieve?
 
If you do a great job, what is the impact?
 
The answers to these questions “should” be aligned to the purpose of your organization.
 
If you work in a school, then the work you do each day should contribute to the purpose of helping young people grow into healthy adults who have agency over their lives.
 
If you don’t feel your work is contributing to the purpose, what is it contributing to? What is the purpose of your work?
 
People want their days to be meaningful. In general people want to contribute to and be a part of something meaningful. 
 
When they don’t have those feelings, it means there is a disconnect with the organizational purpose.
 
How does this happen?
 
The challenging truth is that most organizations have multiple purposes:

• Stated and unstated
• Official and unofficial
• Common and individual

 
So, which, or whose, purpose is your work aligned with?
 
Today’s intention: Look more deeply at the connection between your work and your purpose. All the pieces of your work. Why is each piece there? What purpose does it serve?

Cheers!

Frederick